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MISER

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 578 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MISER , a

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term originally meaning (as in Latin) miserable or wretched, but now used for an avaricious person who hoards up
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money and who spends the smallest possible sum on necessities .

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